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RE: Mis-spoke

[snafur]

First of all, thank you groden for your informative contributions. But let us take another approach for the spud date: Original plans mid year were about to spud LV end of december. Original plan to finish Shelley was end of november. So we are now (officially) about 3 weeks behind shedule. That would result in a new spud date for LV around end of january, beginning of february. There is some rumor about finishing Shelley next week, and I agree with you that Kildare will also take longer than 40 days. (There is no official information on how long it will take, just rumors) So a spud date of early or mid february doesn't sound too optimistic to me, though I also can easily accept end of february. This calculation assumes that the Sedco staff will work during the holidays. Also LV will not be an appraisal drill, so I expect results for this discovery drill very quickly. maybe we can start a bet here? I say: News release about LV results on march 22. (evening)